Just everyday stuff... sometimes.

West Linton and Black Mount from above Whitfield farm. Peeblesshire. Scotland.

Sunday 13 Dec 2015. Beautiful day for a walk. No wind at all for a pleasant change; temp -2C

First fall of lying snow 2015 where I live. About two inches. Astonishingly, people were reporting on Twitter that roads were closed just to the north of here. What on earth is wrong with this country!!!

29 October 2015. Nice juicy sunset near West Linton.

Just up the hill a bit from home. It’s that time of year if you’re a sheep. Three tups waiting in anticipation of being let loose... it’s a hard job I guess but they’ll no doubt rise to the occasion.

Took a walk out to the old Covenanter’s grave today in the western Pentland Hills. Lovely calm and dry day with the temp around 16°C - great for mid September. 11.4 miles round trip. Not bad going on foot, for somebody my age.

Cranshaws Church, near Abbey St Bathans, East Lothian. Stopped here yesterday as it’s 40 years since I last visited. Delightful place and beautiful old building with some wonderfully intricate stone carvings.

Lovely calm weather last night so sat outside most of the evening to enjoy a few glasses of wine and some nice food. Put a little Nikon flashgun with a radio remote behind the chimnea as some backlighting.

Absolutely lovely encounter with three swans yesterday. Stopped at a local reservoir for a few minutes and maw, paw and the wean here swam 100 metres over to say hiya. Even got as close as stroking the male on the head. So trusting. Hurling down with rain though... got soaked.

This is about the best image I’ve found of a migraine-aura (found on Google images). I first experienced a few of these over the course of a couple of months about five years ago. Never had any since, until a couple of weeks ago when one started right out of the blue. They usually last about 20 minutes - beginning very small in the centre of vision in both eyes and then slowly growing in strength and size until resembling this image. Mine are much more colourful though. I never get a headache and things get back to normal fairly quickly. Just had another one that lasted less than five minutes and stayed quite small. Might start keeping a record of these for now.

Across the road from where I was staying last night. Gulls & crows swooping three feet over your head every minute or two. It was like an opening sequence from Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds”. Inland seagulls are essentially just flying rats.

Public transport teenage conversation. Probably texting each other!

More tea Agnes? Yes please Isa. Aren’t these paninis lovely? Beautiful Agnes... I'm not so sure about this wallpaper though!

Another four pics as per last post, since Tumblr only allows 10 images.

The toughest part just before the finale is the race up a dozen flights of stairs to the top of the gantry next to the VIP box, to get to where you sensibly chained your tripod to the railing after arriving early, claiming that spot in order to get good pics of the massed groups at the end.